Aquarius Horoscope for August 2014

This is a good month for progress, Aquarius. You are shifting into high gear with career initiatives while simultaneously exploring new and varied nuances of partnership interaction. Firing in tandem with your own set of priorities and plans, significant persons in your life can help you to achieve a rich amalgam, both with and without their input. Your dedication is extreme, and your steps are careful and well calculated, while at the same time the eventual outcome remains somewhat uncertain. Good communication is definitely one major key to accomplishment, plus acceptance of what the universe and helpful others have to offer. It is a tricky and fascinating exercise, as well as an act of courage, to allow yourself to rest in the assurance that all is well, and that the cosmos is there for you, no matter what.

As the month begins, you are still reeling in the wake of the powerful New Moon from the last weekend of July. This current cycle has been something of a wild ride for you, with more to come as the month continues to unfold. Many different facets of partnership interaction are promoted, along with the concept that these perspectives can bring you added benefit. This is not at all confined to romantic relationships, and includes business relations as well as connections with others in your immediate circle, because friends can also function in a partnering position as far as helping you to better define your goals. The feedback on your own ideas that you receive is likely to be helpful at this time in order that you grow in your understanding of yourself and your milieu, and as a boost for getting further along in the world. This is also an excellent time to be planning a trip with a loved one.

You are as well currently quite passionate about career and professional initiatives, and seem to be in the perfect mode of getting a green light from the universe; you have the boldness of heart commitment and the ease of good fortune combined with the right timing. This is symbolically so because the active energy of Mars, located at the top of your solar chart, in your career sector, lights the way for you in this area. You could be finding as well that there are idealizations that you cherish and that you hate to see evaporate into thin air but which you find nonetheless need adjustments. The tasks and the distance you need to traverse may engender revisions.

There are obstacles that hold you back from the peaceful completion of these idealized schemes and dreams. Saturn is configured is your tenth house of career along with Mars, making for somewhat of a stop-and-go situation. This is one in which caution might eventually prevail over extreme initiative. You are also likely to be quite serious now in the depth of your commitment. It is easy to imagine things moving ahead quickly and gracefully, as would constitute a major blessing, and your positive attitude does work wonders in this way. It is also true that things going slowly and by means of overcoming obstacles may also come to be seen as a blessing, of a different sort, in terms of the life lessons learned.

With your ruler, Uranus, occupying your third solar sector, and highlighted as a result of the close aspects that it makes this month, your communication with others around you is a huge factor for you as well. You may find that you have a tendency to write everything down, in either journal or blog form, or else by means of written communication to friends. As you progress in your self-understanding, this exercise is extremely valuable in helping to sort things out.